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adastraperabsurda t1_j66858u wrote

Reply to comment by legomolin in Childhood abuse may alter brain function in adults. Study found people who experienced abuse during childhood (but not adolescence) experienced altered functioning in the brain for systems associated with perceptual processing and attention. by MistWeaver80

Well, from what I have read about ADHD it’s mostly genetic but also brain trauma (child abuse).

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/causes/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6864256/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013278/

ADHD effects executive functioning which is directly related to how someone deals with stress or emotional regulation. So, a parent with ADHD may be more prone to spanking their kids or yelling at their kids- thus abuse may be more prevalent in their family history and “normalized.” And as ADHD parents tend to have ADHD kids, the emotional regulation issues create a vicious cycle.

This being said: a lot of the articles I have read don’t argue causative (mostly correlative) because of the genetic factors at play.

Recently I’ve been thinking that a lot of my parents behavior and addictions are all symptoms of adhd. So there is that.

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